School District

Textbooks or Online Sources?

Do Your Schools Use

McGraw Hill
Textbooks?

Do Your Schools Use a

McGraw Hill World
Geography Textbook?

What is the Primary Publisher of the Schools' Textbooks or

the Primary Source (Online or Otherwise) for the
Curriculum?

Brighton Central School District

Both

No

No

There isn't a primary publisher for the district. For example, the
three textbooks they have for 9th and 10th grade social studies are
from Prentice Hall, Houghton Mifflin, and McDougal Littell. They
do have a textbook review and recommendation process for
purchasing and using new textbooks. The process takes into
consideration the following criteria: content, readability,
sequential development K-12, authors, fairness and objectivity,
appearance, timeliness, peripheral support, physical condition,
field testing reaction, and cost considerations.

Brockport Central School District

Both

Some

No

McDougal-Littell, Pearson and a variety of online resources

Churchville-Chili Central School District

East Irondequoit Central School District

No response
Varies from class to class, majority use a
mix

No response
Yes

No response
No

East Rochester Union Free School District

Fairport Central School District

No response
Both

No response
Yes

Gates Chili Central School District

Both

No

Greece Central School District

Hilton Central School District
Honeoye Falls-Lima Central School District

No response
No response
Yes, both. However, the textbooks and
online texts are not the only resources
used. Resources are incorporated from
the school library and a wide variety
of online resources are used to present
information within the classroom.

No response
No response
Yes

Kendall Central School District

Both

Some, yes

No response
With the use of iPads in classes, the dependence on textbooks
has been reduced; however they do use McGraw-Hill along with
Pearson and Prentice Hall.
No response
No response
No
Fairport uses a variety of vendors, none of which are used
exclusively. However, many of their purchases are from McGrawHill, Prentice Hall, Houghton Mifflin, Scott Foresman, Heinemann
and Glencoe.
No
Holt McDougal; Cengage Learning, Worth Publishers; Holt,
Rhinehart & Winston; Houghton Mifflin; Harcourt
No response
No response
No response
No response
Yes, they just received the
In addition to the above, HF-L's High School's Social Studies
2014 addition this summer.
Department Leader, Mike Merrill, has shared that he is aware of
They introduced this edition the controversy and has read an article relating to it. He sees this
to the students at the start of situation as a great teachable moment for his students. An
this school year.
integral part of the study of history is the analysis of evidence
within sources. (NYS Social Studies Practices: 3. Analyze evidence
in terms of content, authorship, point of view, bias, purpose,
format, and audience.) He felt this would be a great opportunity
to ask his students to reflect about the term used in this case and
discuss the power of word choice in shaping opinion.

No response

Some classes use McGraw-Hill textbooks. Kendall uses many

other publishers textbooks, too.

Monroe 1 BOCES

They use a variety of resources within

Yes
their programs. The resources (literature,
articles, online sources, text sets,
documentaries, textbooks) used depend
on the grade level, content, course,
program and student population.

No

No one source, textbook or publishing company is used for the

curriculum. Teachers develop curriculum maps utilizing the
Common Core State Standards in combination with knowledge of
how students learn best. They rely on a variety of resources and
don't limit students to one resource. They provide a variety of
resources with varying perspectives so that students can
formulate opinions based on more than one viewpoint. They use
resources from the following publishing companies (this list is not
all-encompassing): Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Pro ED,
Heinemann, N2Y, McGraw-Hill, Scholastic, Curriculum Associates
& American Reading Company.

Monroe 2-Orleans BOCES

Penfield Central School District

No response
Both

No
No

Pittsford Central School District

Teachers in all of the schools use a variety No

of resources to support student learning
including, but not limited to textbooks
and online resources.

No

Houghton Mifflin
They use resources from a wide variety of providers to support
the curriculum.
They use a variety of publishers for our textbooks and other
resources. Textbooks and other resources are vetted by teachers
and standards leaders for alignment to curriculum, readability,
and other factors.

Rochester City School District

Both

Yes

Teachers use a GlencoeMcGraw-Hill textbook for

social studies in grade 6 and
grades 7-8. "Journey Across
Time is the 6th grade book.
The grade 7-8 book is The
American Journey."

Teachers in grades K-5 use textbooks from Pearson Scott

Foresman to help students meet state standards. Grade 9 uses a
McDougal Littell text and grades 10-12 use books from Prentice
Hall. The RCSD textbook selection process involves a review
committee that includes parents and community members along
with teachers, school administrators, and instructional directors.
Most of the social studies texts are New York State editions,
which means they have also been vetted by a state panel of
educators and experts.

Rush-Henrietta Central School District

Both

Yes

No

Spencerport Central School District

Both

Yes, K-2 literacy program No

(called "Wonders") is
published by McGraw-Hill

It varies. They use a textbook adoption process to determine

which textbooks will be used.
Global History No
AP World History No
U.S. History No
AP U.S. History Yes (author is Alan Brinkley)
The Global History textbook is called "Patterns of Interaction"
and is published by Holt McDougal. They U.S. History textbook is
called "Pathways to Present" and is published by Prentice Hall.

No
Some

Webster Central School District

No
Webster CSD uses textbooks in most
Webster CSD's biology
courses, and all newly adopted textbooks textbook
typically come with online subscriptions. that was adopted in 2004
is published by McGrawHill. The district is waiting
on adopting a
different textbook until
new science standards are
released by NYSED. The
biology textbook is
currently the only
McGraw-Hill textbook
used in the district.

Webster CSD chooses textbooks based on those that best meet

the needs of students through a full textbook adoption process,
including paper review, formal presentations, and field tests. The
last three science textbook adoptions have been
published by Cengage Learning and Pearson Education.
Webster's mathematics department uses the ALEKS online
program that was purchased by McGraw-Hill last year. Other
publishers used by Webster include Wilson Language Training
and Scholastic Corporation.

West Irondequoit Central School District

Wheatland-Chili Central School District

No response
Both

No response
Social studies classes in grades K, 1, 2, 4, and 5 use
MacMillan/McGraw-Hill textbooks. The textbooks are called,
People Together and New York Adventures in Time and
Place. Social studies classes in grade 3 use Scott Foresman.
Social studies classes in grade 5 use Prentice Hall. Grade 6 and 7
use McDougal Littell. High school global studies classes use
Prentice Hall and McDougal Little textbooks. High school U.S.
history classes use Holt and Wadsworth Cengage Learning
textbooks.

No response
Yes

No response
No